“All of the books you read, stories you hear, songs you sing all talk about a blue sky. If you’re born color blind, everyday when you wake up and look at the sky, it will be grey. Why would you expect to wake up one day and the sky be blue? “

“‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the skin horse, ‘it’s something that happens to you… Once you are real you can’t be ugly, except to the people who don’t understand'”- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit